When I bought my apartment in Singapore in 2005 one of the bedrooms was allocated to be the creative studio. We built an internal air gap and soundproofed the walls and ceiling with 2 inches of rockwool. Since then it's been my central creative base, where I've made everything including brochures, annual reports, websites, photography, audio recordings and corporate video projects.
Just finished a nice video for a good friend who has turned her expert hand to jewellry design.
When my longtime friend and colleague, Heather Anderson, asked me to make a promo video for her new line of silver jewellry I leapt at the chance.
We shot this in a couple of days using the EOS 5D MKII, and shot the product inlays the following day using the EOS 1 DS MKIII.
Editing and post production were done in Premiere CS5 and After Effects - our first project since migrating from Sony Vegas. I'm really pleased with the colour grade and the quality of the H.264 encoding that Premiere does.
Demand crashed the server on the first night! But normal service is now resumed. Everyone was trying to get hold of Pop Friction. Because we're giving away the 2004 debut album of Calamity Pop for free right now. Visit the Pop Friction page for details.
New Digital Download Sites
Calamity Studio output can now be digitally downloaded in any format you like at the following sites: Monjour Nagraan
New Kit
Recently added stuff New Plugs!
The amazing Valley People Dynamite from Softube is now part of our armoury. It's a fabulous little dynamics box that we've been using on the Stu Smith project to give the drums that extra 'snap'.
We're currently trialing Stilwell's Bombardier, but haven't had much chance to give it an overhaul yet.
Soundtoys Native 4 (yes I know, I'm weak), even thought its performance in Sonar 8.5.3x64 is ass and the developers have no intention of fixing it.
Softube's wonderful Bass Amp Room Softube's wonderful Tube Delay Softube's wonderful FET Compressor (it's a bit like an LA2A but better) Something secret but wonderful from Softube! (yes, we think Softube are wonderful)
